Argh!

April 15, 2008

I’m feeling horribly overloaded again. Since I spent the weekend having fun (gasp!) I’m behind with the housework. The Spanish have a very eloquent expression; “The house is falling on top of me”. That’s how I feel. I’m even more behind with the current translation. And I have a very nice problem in that someone’s ordered some prints from my website, and some of the digital files aren’t where I…

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Warp Speed Nine

Hurray, the gales have stopped. In fact there was hardly any wind at all today. As soon as I woke up I started looking forward to a peaceful day. Ha! It got off to a nice enough start. I met an old friend, Jo, in town. She used to work at the observatory, but I hadn’t seen her since she left, over five years ago. So we chatted, and drank…

April 10, 2008
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More Progress

Yay! I got Photoshop and basic anti-spyware installed. I finally collected a parcel from the post office this morning that’s been there since the morning I went into the Caldera. )I tried to collect it on Saturday, but they were shut. Grrr.) I collected a whole lamb from the butchers (special offer – and they cut it up, thank goodness) and shared it out between us and some friends. The…

March 24, 2008
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Winning Slowly

Well the printer/scanner now works properly. And we’ve got Mozilla Firefox going (must try to recover the old bookmarks) and Open Office. But so far I can’t find out how to have a different header for the first page of a document, which is rather important for fiction submissions. Tomorrow I hope to re-install Photoshop.

March 23, 2008
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Apologies

I just came back from a three-day excursion into the Caldera. I got halfway through a post and the computer died. Normal service should resume soon!

March 15, 2008
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